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This feels like a different version of only 3 seats left or only 2 rooms available at this price. Why not notify me when the price goes down or is likely to go down?
> To see your trips and travel research, turn on these settings: Private results, Web & app activity This is the main reason why I will never be able to use www.google.com/travel. I used to use the Trips app with no search history, but Google is shutting down Trips in favor of forcing people to loosen privacy settings. It is very disappointing because Trips worked very well.
Google flights, maps, search: Use this new gmail account My other communication: Use my existing gmail account
I could use two browsers, but it may be easier to just use 2 tabs in a single browser (I use firefox to access gmail).
Wonder if that will make life easier, or worse. Thoughts?
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I use TripIt ever since Trips was shutdown. While it doesn't do everything, it does quite a lot (have all reservations etc in one place).
Based on this recommendation, I signed up, but gracious, the UI is bad.
Say what you want about Google/Alphabet as a whole, but Google Flights is incredible. It's absolutely amazing how quickly and largely that Google crushed all its competitors in terms of usability. Kayak, Hipmunk, Orbitz, Skyscanner were all my go-to's at one point but G.Flights is far superior in so many ways. It actually remembers your airline preference between searches. You don't have to beg or change settings to…
(disclaimer: I work at Google, but no relationship with the Flights team other than as an individual user) Funny story: just last week I was booking a complicated multi-city trip with 5 legs, multiple countries, etc. I tried several times via united.com, and it wasn't showing me any flights available in one of the legs (which I knew they had a codeshare agreement). I went back to Google Flights, chose all my flights,…
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But... why? Google is refunding passengers, not the airlines. The airline already sold an expensive ticket thanks to Google. Why in the world would you attack a business partner that brings you customers in such a strange way?
Airlines run on razor thin margins now. If they believe that people in the future will know where they want to fly and will search for tickets wherever tickets are sold (see Southwest) and they can get a bunch of free advertising and sell some expensive tickets by burning Google, I think they'd at least consider doing it.
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I use hopper [0] for something similar. But considering google's scale and resources, google might give me more accurate predictions. [0]: https://www.hopper.com/
I'd be hesitant on that one, or any prediction software, without the backing of the price guarantee like Google has. Otherwise you're really just gambling. I used to use whatever flight prediction software Bing bought out when I traveled for work. It was pretty accurate most of the time, and I got used to trusting it, but I definitely got burned really badly a few times by continuing to wait as the price sky rocketed…
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The airline industry quote market is very much not dead though.... Skyscanner, kayak, etc...
Do you know what they are using under the hood?
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Say what you want about Google/Alphabet as a whole, but Google Flights is incredible. It's absolutely amazing how quickly and largely that Google crushed all its competitors in terms of usability. Kayak, Hipmunk, Orbitz, Skyscanner were all my go-to's at one point but G.Flights is far superior in so many ways. It actually remembers your airline preference between searches. You don't have to beg or change settings to…
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A while back I applied for a price protection partial refund when I bought a Nexus something or other and they dropped the price a week or two later. It took less than 24 hours for the money to be back on my card - I don't think any humans were involved. Why would they be?
> I don't think any humans were involved. Why would they be? The question is not "can I contact a human if it all goes well and everything works perfectly?" The question is "can I contact a human if it doesn't ?"
Say what you want about Google/Alphabet as a whole, but Google Flights is incredible. It's absolutely amazing how quickly and largely that Google crushed all its competitors in terms of usability. Kayak, Hipmunk, Orbitz, Skyscanner were all my go-to's at one point but G.Flights is far superior in so many ways. It actually remembers your airline preference between searches. You don't have to beg or change settings to…
I agree that its real-time inventory and pricing availability has been a total game changer in the UX department. Presumably their acquisition of ITA gave them the ability to respond to queries in real-time which enabled all of the (quite excellent) features you pointed out above. There's just one problem -- because a ton of the data is cached, or precomputed, or however it's done, a substantial and frustrating amoun…
The result is that sometimes the information they display can be out of sync with airlines. You should notice this issue more on rarer flight routes.